"There is no need to have a deep…" — Shunryu Suzuki

"There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen."

— Shunryu Suzuki

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131 Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki

Shunryu Suzuki has 131 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are…
If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I…
Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel…
The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.
Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.
The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thursty.
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there…
When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain…
As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is…
When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right…
If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe…

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself… — Saint Basil
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love… — Henry Ward Beecher

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